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Tuesday, April 2, 2013

CHARLES WILLIAMS STORY Chapter 19

Niagra Falls
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With the wedding behind them
Charles and Edie were on their honeymoon and this morning they slept in until
eleven o'clock.

Yesterday was a long day and
they didn't sleep much last night. Charles had some questions in his mind that
popped up seemingly out of nowhere but most of his wonderings were answered
satisfactory earlier last night.

So far they had shared
everything with one another, but the thoughts he had last night would remain
with him at least until they were ninety.

He found himself a little out
of character and feeling a little foolish this morning, he didn't say it out
loud but he thought, "She's a keeper," and we are really going to get
to know each other these two weeks.

As for Edie, while she had
loved Charles enough to marry him, she now found new levels of caring about
him.

She thought to herself, “He
is just what I wanted,” and an air of satisfaction seemed to engulf her.

As they were getting dressed
Charles went over and kissed her and gave her a strong embrace.After a moment she said, “We had better get
dressed or we will miss lunch also.”

Charles smiled at that and
said. “I think you are right.”

After lunch they returned to
their room and prepared for the afternoon trip to the American
Falls. It took a little longer than they thought but finally they
were on their way.

They found the falls to be
awesome and they stood transfixed while holding hands.

The guides gave a lot of
information about the falls such as a glacier formed the Great
Lakes and the falls was a result of that.

Tomorrow they were planning
to journey into Canada
and view the falls on the other side.

At the evening supper they
met several newlyweds like themselves and they all went in a group to the
Canadian side and spent much of the day with them.

Niagra Falls Frozen 1911
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There was something they had
trouble believing and that was the falls at one time had frozen and people
actually walked out on them.

After spending most of the
day with the other newlyweds they decided to go it alone, for the others seem
to get into spats over nothing and it didn't make sense to them.

After four days at the falls
they had seen all they wanted to see and headed to New York City and were amazed at all the sights.

You took your life in your
own hands trying to cross the street.

There were horse drawn street
cars and buildings that reached up to the sky and interesting small rooms
called elevators that you got into, and it would take you up to different floors
of the buildings, in stead of walking up the stairs.

Charles couldn't imagine walking up twenty
floors.

They decided to visit the
docks which were similar to the ones back home except they were much busier.

Many
people called immigrants by the hundreds were coming over from Ellis Island carrying sacks with all of their possessions
in their hands.

Here and there were people
pushing hand carts with goods for sale and cops everywhere trying to control
what seemed like madness to Charles and Edie.

The afternoons were times for
sight seeing but the nights and mornings were spent alone with each other.

They determined they had seen
enough of New York
and decided to return home a day early without telling anyone of their arrival.It would be good to get set up in their new
home and relax for a day before the questions started about how was married
life.